Int 0642-2007
Prohibiting smoking on and around hospital grounds.
IntroductionEnactedCommittee on Healthintroduced 2007-11-15Local Law 2009/050
Enacted as Local Law 2009/050.
Official record · Legistar
Agenda: 2007-11-15Passed: 2009-08-13Enacted: 2009-08-13
Committee on Health — Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Office of the Chief Medical Examiner and EMS (health-related issues).
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Sponsors (25)
Lifecycle
IntroducedIntroduced by Council
2007-11-15 · City Council
ActionReferred to Comm by Council
2007-11-15 · City Council
HeardHearing Held by Committee
2009-05-21 · Committee on Health
ActionAmendment Proposed by Comm
2009-05-21 · Committee on Health
HeldLaid Over by Committee
2009-05-21 · Committee on Health
HeardHearing Held by Committee
2009-07-27 · Committee on Health
ActionAmendment Proposed by Comm
2009-07-27 · Committee on Health
ActionAmended by Committee
2009-07-27 · Committee on Health
AdvancedApproved by Committee
2009-07-27 · Committee on Health
AdvancedApproved by Council
2009-07-29 · City Council
ActionSent to Mayor by Council
2009-07-29 · City Council
HeardHearing Held by Mayor
2009-08-13 · Mayor
AdvancedSigned Into Law by Mayor
2009-08-13 · Mayor
ActionRecved from Mayor by Council
2009-08-13 · City Council
Votes (11)
Aye (8)
Rosie MendezMathieu EugeneJohn C. LiuKenneth C. MitchellJoel RiveraInez E. DickensMaria Del Carmen ArroyoHelen Sears
Absent (3)
Kendall StewartAlbert VannHelen D. Foster
Heard at (4)
City Council · 2009-07-29 · 1:30 PM · Council Chambers - City Hall
Committee on Health · 2009-07-27 · 1:00 PM · 250 Broadway - Hearing Room, 14th Fl.
Committee on Health · 2009-05-21 · 10:00 AM · Committee Room - City Hall
City Council · 2007-11-15 · 1:30 PM · Council Chambers - City Hall
Attachments (10)
- Int. No. 642 - 11/15/07
- Committee Report 5/21/09
- Hearing Transcript 5/21/09
- Hearing Testimony 5/21/09
- Committee Report 7/27/09
- Hearing Transcript 7/27/09
- Press Release
- Fiscal Impact Statement
- Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 7/29/09
- Local Law
Full text
Be it enacted by the Council as follows:
Section 1. Section 17-502 of chapter 5 of title 17 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new subdivision mm to read as follows:
mm. “Hospital”, for the purposes of paragraph 6 of subdivision c of section 17-503, shall mean a general hospital as defined in section twenty-eight hundred one of the public health law, diagnostic center and treatment center as defined in section 751.1 of part seven hundred fifty one of title ten of the New York codes, rules and regulations and residential health care facilities as defined in section twenty-eight hundred one of the public health law.
nn. “Hospital grounds” means the outdoor grounds contained within a hospital’s legally defined property boundaries.
§2. Subdivision c of section 17-503 of chapter 5 of title 17 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new paragraph 6 to read as follows:
6. Hospital grounds, within fifteen feet of any hospital entrance or exit and within fifteen feet of the entrance to or exit from any hospital grounds.
§3. This local law shall take effect ninety days after its enactment.
AS
LS # 2845
6/22/09